A way for all of us to write back into the media and have a voice and have a critical engagement with the media. And I think that's a really good thing for society, I think we should all be media literate, readers and also writers of the media.

News organizations have to make gut decisions about how they approach coverage of something, whether or not they cover something, and a lot of that is based on memory and that memory can be faulty and s so exciting to have the opportunity that we can actually do a key word search and How many times did we talk about this issue in the last year? ... Obviously it's a huge opportunity to have access more -- anytime there's more information it's better for the democratic process.

With the television archive project you can take information from political speech and cross-reference it with other information from political speech and you don't have to be a network news producer to do it, you can do it in your own home and do it comprehensively.

To have the same ability to interact and kind of write into the visual record and speak with video, as John Stewart does, and as people with huge production departments do. Until now it's been completely impossible, I mean, we could dream about it, but without a resource like the TV News Archive, and the research service that's come along with it, it just simply wasn't possible.

Today we sort of take it for granted that we can just reference the Wayback Machine and point to a url of some website a few years ago, but being able to do that with political commentary and news is gonna be incredibly powerful and I hope that it become part of the fabric of the internet